The Union Street Bakery by Mary Ellen Taylor

Life
can turn on a dime. It’s a common cliché, and I’d heard it often enough. People
die or move away. Investments go south. Affairs end. Loved ones betray
us...Stuff happens.

Daisy
McCrae’s life is in tatters. She’s lost her job, broken up with her boyfriend,
and has been reduced to living in the attic above her family’s store, the Union
Street Bakery, while learning the business. Unfortunately, the bakery is in
serious hardship. Making things worse is the constant feeling of not being a
“real” McCrae since she was adopted as a child and has a less-than-perfect
relationship with her two sisters.

Then
a long-standing elderly customer passes away, and for some reason bequeaths
Daisy a journal dating back to the 1850s, written by a slave girl named Susie.
As she reads, Daisy learns more about her family—and her own heritage—than she
ever dreamed. Haunted by dreams of the young Susie, who beckons Daisy to “find
her,” she is compelled to look further into the past of the town and her
family.

What
she finds are the answers she has longed for her entire life, and a chance to
begin again with the courage and desire she thought she lost for good.

Union
Street Bakery is a delicious treat to read. I was hooked after the first
chapter. The characters are fun, and the mystery and paranormal elements are
very believable. This story has a lot going on, but the author is brilliant in
her ability to keep it up beat and easy to understand. I love the way the mystery is opened up
little by little. The setting is fantastic and the author adds touches to the
story to make you feel like you are right there in the mist of the bakery
watching the sisters.

This
story is written in mostly Daisy’s POV. Daisy is a strong character, but when
her mom left her at the age of three she find she sometimes feels no one wants
her, so she has to work hard with that issue. Rachel and Margret are her
sisters, you hear about them a lot in the story because they are with her just
about every day. They are fun and they love Daisy as a sister and will do
anything for her.

This
book has a touch of paranormal elements because of the ghost and a touch of
romance due to the interaction between Daisy and Gordon, but you don’t read about
any sex between them. You also get an excellent mystery. So I would defiantly
classify this more of a paranormal mystery. There is no HEA so you have to wait
to see what happens between Daisy, the ghost Shaun and Gordon in the next
book. I believe it is set to be released
this coming fall, so you won’t have long to wait.

I
would recommend this to anyone who loves paranormal and mystery. I will give
you a fair warning this book will make you want to run to the nearest bakery.
LOL. There are
also some recipes at the end of the book so that should help;)

1 comment:

Oh how cute. I love the cover on it. I read cozy mysteries like this every once in a while and will add this to the list. It's definitely one my mom would like. She doesn't like any sexy bits in her reads unlike me ;) Love that it's in a bakery. Can already tell I'll be having some cravings!

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